1999.6.1
GeoPlus
It seems this site is becoming a general
news site, rather than news about manga ^.^
I've joined GeoPlus in May and all the geocities
pop-up ads are now gone from my site! Isn't that
nice? No more annoying ads that are ugly and
distracting! The first month of GeoPlus is free, but
I guess I'll keep paying afterwards, a page without
geocities ads is just so much better to surf.
BTW, I've just created
a guest book, please sign my guest book! Leave a message, and I'll remember you
forever!
1999.5.29
Coupons from Chapters.ca
There's a pretty good deal at the new
Chapters online store. You can get $10 coupons from
Chapters.ca, and use it to buy anything, even
something less than $10. First, get a coupon here and go to chapters.ca.
1999.2.8
Some Interesting Links
I was surfing the web the other day and
found several interesting official artists' sites.
These sites have pictures drawn by the artists
themselves and actually remind you of the style of
the artist, I find them refreshing to visit.
Kazumi Toujyou
Natsumi Itsuki
More Official Links
1998.12
Rotten Teacher Formula #5-
Kodaka Kazuma
Volume 5 is out already, but
I'm still waiting for the chinese version! The
teacher Masayoshi, and his student are such a perfect
match when making fun of others, these 2 are probably
the smartest characters in the story! But what'll
happen to them? That can't really be love???
1998.11.30
Bronze #10 - Minami Ozaki
After almost 2 years since the last volume,
Bronze #10 is finally out!!
If you still remember
what happened in #9, Koji and Izumi's life was
starting to get together. Izumi's leg was healed and
was doing really well in soccer, Koji, as jealous as
ever, seemed to have gotten Izumi's attention. Izumi,
in his own way, did finally admit that he really
loved Koji. For several months, they were living
together quite happily.
It was Christmas day
(Koji's birthday), Izumi woke up early as usual, did
a little training with Koji, and went out for a jog.
But his destination was really Tiffany & CO.,
where he would get a diamond cross necklace he
ordered a while ago for Koji's birthday. On his
birthday ( Aug. 15 ), Koji gave him a ring, which he
thought was a nice gift. People would ask Izumi about
the ring, but since Koji was always wearing gloves,
Izumi thought a necklace would be a nice gift
compared to the ring. (hmmhmm, really? don't
understand why ...)
After Izumi took the
necklace, he was hit by a car on his way home. Of
course that was no accident, who else would do such a
thing? Last time it was Koji's eldest brother trying
to hurt them, now it was his second brother Akihito's
turn to ruin their life. With Izumi lying on the
road, bleeding, that was the end of Bronze 9.
The author would never
let the characters live in peace .... they were
starting to live a life, Izumi was hit by a car, if
he was killed, then perhaps the story could end here
eventually, but in volume #10, they found out that
Izumi was not dead yet. Worse than death itself, his
spine was broke, very probably, he would be paralyzed
for the rest of his life, would never be able to walk
or stand again. Perhaps he could play soccer still in
his dreams, but everyone thought that his life, which
depended heavily on soccer, would be over. Koji even
tried to kill him before he wake up, but stopped at
the last moment by Shibuya.
In Bronze 10, there's
really only about 60 pages of the story of Bronze,
the rest is several other short stories. At the end
of these 60 pages, Izumi woke up in the hospital,
with Koji, vowing to himself that everything would be
ok, by his side.
I can't really say now
I'm looking forward to volume 11, with years of these
up and down plots, the story is getting boring.
Minami Ozaki may as well kill the characters so as to
end the story, then she can start a new one, do it
all over again with the same characters!